Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wish: Mark/Find the element matching the display filter

[Stig Bjørlykke <stig.bjorlykke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19. nov.. 2007, at 23.58, Guy Harris wrote:

> That does raise an interesting question - if a pattern matches *more
> than one* field in a packet, should "find next" find the next instance
> that matches, even if it's in the same packet, or should it find the
> next instance in that packet and, if there is no next instance in that
> packet, search subsequent packets?  There are probably places where  
> the
> former is useful and places where the latter is useful.

The current implementation of the search does only find the first  
instance in a packet.  In my scenario I have alot of elements in each  
packet, with many matching the search criteria.  I would really like  
to find each of them when performing a search.


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Stig Bjørlykke